Melania packardi Dickerson 1915 (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae

Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1915. Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5(3):33-98

Belongs to Melania according to R. E. Dickerson 1915

Sister taxa: Thiara (Balanocochlis), Thiara (Plotia), Thiara (Sermyla), Thiara (Setaeara), Thiara scabra, Thiara smartsvillensis, Thiara tjemoroensis, Thiara wheatlandensis, Melania inquinata, Melania acutestriata, Melania buccinalis, Melania bullia, Melania nitida, Melania hunteri, Melania claibornensis, Melania texata, Melania tenuiplica, Melania dunkeri, Melania dubia, Melania strigillata, Melania canicularis, Melania miikensis, Melania marginata, Melania obovata, Melania herklotsi, Melania alberti, Melania concentrica, Melania plieningeri, Melania semistriata, Melania taylori, Melania fettkei, Melania schlotheimii, Melania triticea, Melania polita, Melania plicata, Melania blainvillii, Melania longissima, Melania fragilis, Melania laevigata, Melania plicatula, Melania multistriata, Melania vaderensis, Melania partschii, Melania decussata, Melania abbreviata, Melania hoernesi, Melania formosa, Melania semiplicata, Melania clavula, Melania hordacea, Melania tenuis

Type specimen: CAS 299. Its type locality is CAS loc. 183, Big Bend of Cowlitz River, which is in a Bartonian marine mudstone/sandstone in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at CAS loc. 183, Big Bend of Cowlitz River

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